Gym!

So I have embarked on the adventure that is a Korean Gym. They don't call they Gyms of course, or even Jims, but rather "Health"s. The one I joined is right across the street from my apartment building and pretty small/tame. It has a dozen treadmills, 5 stationary bikes, a stair stepper, an elliptical, and a variety of weight training machines and free weights. I feel very much that it's oriented towards men as more than half of the weight machines are for bicep training. I have to say the machine that amuses me the most is one of those shakey things from the 50's. Do you remember those? I always imagine a housewife with a martini in one hand a cigarette in the other wearing a dress with an apron and leaning into the belt while it jostles and shakes her around. (I think this image comes from Blast From the Past, Brandon Frasers Mom uses one) It's pretty funny to see fit young men leaning into it. I wonder what it's supposed to do. If there's a slow day I'll see if I can take some pictures of the equipment
The staff is friendly and the one member who can speak English is very excited to have me there and make sure I'm doing things right. While riding the elevator the other day I (well, we, Jen was really the one who figured it out) recognized one of the staff...apparently he lives in the same building as us.